UX Designer, Associate

About this role

Who We Are

Hello there!

We’re Aladdin WealthTech. We are a FinTech company with a start-up vibe but some big-time resources. We are part of BlackRock, the largest asset manager on the planet … that is also a $1B annual revenue enterprise software company. We create products that help financial advisors and their clients build financial plans and portfolios to achieve some of life’s most important moments: buying a home, sending your kids to college and retirement. We believe in the power of BlackRock’s world-class portfolio analytics AND the importance of the human connection between advisor and client.

We are looking for an experienced User Experience Designer to join a team. Our design team is spread across Atlanta, New York City, Princeton, San Francisco and London. You will be joining a product team with a start-up feel and a global impact. Aladdin WealthTech provides financial advisors, and BlackRock’s wealth advisory teams, with a suite of experiences that affords them portfolio construction, analysis and diagnostic capabilities.

We work hard, enjoy each other’s company during and after work and are passionate about the potential of our technology to improve financial outcomes for clients. We like our mash-up of FinTech start-up and market-leading financial services company … and we think that you might like it, too!

Interested in learning more? Reach out to our recruiting team and let’s get to know each other!

The Role

Our UX Designers work with teams across engineering, product, marketing, business development, and research. You will employ UX and service design techniques to enhance existing experiences, creates new ones and be an integral part of optimizing our design system.

Role/Responsibilities:

• Create a wide spectrum of innovative design solutions in collaboration with design lead, product owners, partners, and engineering to showcase user’s desired outcomes, cover business needs using strong design rationale.
• You’ll design everything from high level flows, to detailed wireframes, to high fidelity mockups, to clickable prototypes to express your vision
• Conduct usability testing to validate design directions and inform new thinking for key features.
• Present your designs and rationale to our partners
• Contribute to improving our design team tools and processes

Basic Qualifications:

• A portfolio which showcases your awesome UX and UI design skills , and work across complex web applications.
• 3+ years’ experience in similar design role, delivering data-heavy applications as part of multi-functional  teams including engineering, design and product management, with at least 2 projects where you led the design from discovery to release. 
• Expert Figma skills.
• Solid understanding of elements of visual design: Typography, Iconography, Color Theory, Layout and Composition
• Strong UX design skillset, including;  identifying problem statements, solution generation, concept creation, wireframing, testing, synthesis, iteration, prototyping.
• Experience working on the delivery and production side of projects including applying design systems, contributing to pattern libraries, producing assets for developments and visual QA of in-production designs.
• Strong communication and storytelling capabilities

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience creating data visualizations and/or designing products that have innovated in visualizing large datasets.
• Prior experience creating products in the financial technology space = banking, payments, investing.

You should be:

• Curious about your profession and the world of FinTech, to proactively learn and keep up to date.
• Keen to deliver business value in addition to producing innovative solutions.
• Proactive and take ownership of your work – you have a positive and growth focused mindset,  you are eager to do more than what is asked and constantly work to improve your skills.
• High attention to quality and detail, be it design, testing or code review.
• A big picture thinker.  Be able to take inspiration from non-traditional sources and partners.

 

For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$132,500.00 - USD$162,500.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

 

For Atlanta, GA Only the salary range for this position is USD$120,000.00 - USD$148,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.